[whatwg] Exceptions in UndoManager

[Alex Vincent]

My first concern is "what state will the UndoManager be in when an
exception happens?"  There may be transactions that were undone, cropped
off


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> When an exception is thrown within transact(), the most sane behavior
> appears to be rolling back all DOM changes that have made thus far (this in
> turn may also fail due to mutation events, etc...). Also this is not
> possible with manual transactions because browsers don't keep track of
> what's happening in the DOM, etc...
>
> So how about just firing an event like DOMTransactionException at the undo
> scope host to let scripts handle them?
>

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